Word: helpful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President Faust asked us to help the University think through its opportunities in Allston and we enthusiastically agreed,” wrote Bill Purcell in an e-mailed statement. “We are looking forward to getting underway, and to developing options and recommendations for Harvard’s campus development, as well as for strong and lasting engagement with the Allston-Brighton community...
...live in the U.S. but far from Cambridge—are taken under the wing of the Harvard Freshman Host Family Program. Coordinated through the Freshman Dean’s Office, the program pairs freshman with local college alumni who share their academic and personal interests in order to help ease the students’ transition into University life...
...always ask interested graduates, friends, and colleagues—in addition to reunion classes—if they want to help welcome first-year students to Harvard,” said Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67. “This program has been growing, and we know from testimonials that host families make the freshman year experience much richer, simply by inviting host students for home-cooked meals or introducing them to the community...
...They would check up on me every so often, and were always there if I needed any help,” she said...
...Brandt said that the increase in stipends will help reassure current and prospective students about the financial state of the graduate school. “The rise in stipends will...make Harvard very competitive in our efforts to recruit the most talented students,” Brandt wrote in an e-mail to the Crimson...